Monthly Archives: May 2023

Congratulations to Safiyah Sadek for winning the Sandra J. Legan Award for Outstanding Undergraduate Research in Neuroscience based on her work on the xylazine/fentanyl project!

Tyrone was selected out of more than 270 applications to receive the 2023 CPDD NIDA Women & Sex/Gender Junior Investigator Travel Award. This is an incredible achievement, congrats Tyrone!

Shailesh Khatri and Tyrone Kendrick gave incredible presentations at the 2023 Substance Use Research Event!

This summer, Ashley White, a MD/PhD student will begin her work in the lab funded through the Professional Student Mentored Research Fellowship Program from the University of Kentucky CCTS. We also welcome Ashley Craig, a recent graduate of the University of Kentucky with a major in Neuroscience. Ashley was recently awarded the NIDA Summer Undergraduate Internship to work on neuroimmune mechanisms of nicotine use in the lab this summer. We are so excited to have you both join us!